Pathfinder Evergreen Meadow looked up as the airships where being loaded, she had been able to sense the dark powers approaching her empire before they arrived, however they didn't have long. They would be here within a matter of minutes, the mages would do everything in their power with their nature magic to hold them at bay while civilians and key military personal evacuated, her own Daughter, second in command, would go with them as well, she hugged Soft Breeze. "May the Goddess of Nature grant us both strength to face our tasks, now go, your airships must leave now if you are to survive this." She spoke calmly, she knew there was no avoiding what was to come, but perhaps they could delay the abominations long enough to give a decent chunk of her empire's population a chance at life.

Soft Breeze nodded and let go of her mother before rushing to the lead airship and boarding, the moment she was aboard it took off. As did the others, their propellers screeching as their power increased before they lifted off and forwards. Pathfinder Evergreen Meadow looked forward back at the city which now was beginning to burn, black flames which seemed to suck the very life and light from whatever they touched she growled, putting on a helmet and her antlers glowing bright green before a beam of nature magic shot forth and sliced several Umbrum clean in half, killing them. Shadow as they may be they could still be harmed. Around her several mages had been doing the same, and for the most part keeping most of them at bay. But it only took one getting through for their line of mages to fall. She watched as one by one her mages fell, some letting their magic destabilize to take their enemy with them in bright green explosions of arcane energy, while some fell as husks, civilians screaming in horror as they too fell pray to the Shadows before them, conventional firearms completely useless.

Pathfinder Evergreen Meadow charged her antlers again and shot another beam of green energy, before a shadow larger than the others shot forward and snapped her horns off, causing her to screech in agony before the shadow solidified into a mare with black fur, crimson eyes and a long crooked blood red horn. "Little doe wants to fight back does she?~ Too bad, you shall fall like the rest have." The mare held Pathfinder Evergreen Meadow up by the throat, squeezing.

Evergreen glared down at the shadow before her. "You disgusting Abomination!" She spat into the mares face, which the mare didn't take kindly to as she quickly twisted her head an entire 360 degrees so fast and violently that Evergreen hadn't known she had died when it happened. The Shadow Queen glared at the corpse before draining the remaining life from within, leaving it a broken and shattered husk.

She tossed the husk aside and grinned watching her children feast on those who remained, she even laughed watching one fawn scream over the husk of what had once been its mother, before the fawn had become food for her children as well. She had attacked the Caribou not only because they had been the next closest empire to the one her children had emerged from, but also because she remembered their Nature Magic, she remembered well since the Caribou had helped Amore and the Ponies seal her species away, to be locked away forever and forgotten, she grinned larger. They would never be forgotten after this, no, her species would be the only ones free to walk the surface once they where done.

---------------------------------------------------------------Equestria, Canterlot Castle-----------------------------------------

Princess Celestia looked over to her sister Luna. "Sister I fear something terrible is about to occur, I've been having reoccurring dreams these past few days about living shadows, like Sombra."

Luna shrugged, one ear flopping down. "You know as well as I that Sombra was the result of dark magics not before seen in his time, he was the only of his kind to be birthed before the magics ceased to exist due to, from if what the records say is true, the efforts of the Crystal Empire, Caribou, and Ancient Pre Unification ponies, however I do find it strange that as of late we have had no contact with the Diamond Dog Empire, normally they are always on schedule for our monthly trade of supplies and goods, no hails over the radio have worked so far."

Princess Celestia nodded. "I too have noticed this oddity, I've already sent a messenger to make contact with them yesterday, hopefully it will go well and its just their radios being unreliable, moreso than our own at any rate, diamond dogs are perfect for mining and digging, and can build a few good reliable things, but complex electronics are rather hard for them to grasp, which is why their detonation of a weapon close, even if it pales in comparison to what King Lorenzo's Empire may have most certainly surprised me." Celestia sat down, beginning to relax with a cup of tea. This didn't last long however as the radio she had on her began to scream so she picked it up. "Yes?"

The voice which came through the other end of the speaker on her device was frantic, panicked, and breathing heavily. "My Princess! I....I can't begin to describe the horrors of which I have seen here! I went to the Diamond Dog Empire as instructed to make simple contact, but there is no diamond dog empire anymore! Their all dead, dried husks! The shadows are alive and I fear I may too meet an end soon! I'm going to attempt to come ba-" The transmission cut out from normal speaking, to blood curdling screaming causing Princess Celestia to toss the radio in shock against a wall, shattering the device with the force which it was thrown.

Luna's eyes where wide. "By Faust! We must ready the Equestrian Empire and warn others!"

Princess Celestia nodded. "We must do so quickly, you ready the guard forces and I will make an announcement to the civilians and other Empires." Celestia watched Luna teleport away, before she herself teleported with a flash of yellow magic, if this was as serious as she thought and as violent as she had been seeing in her latest night terrors, there was absolutely no time to waste.

Author's Notes:

Well Folks! Another chapter, I hope ya enjoy it as much as any other lately, I'm tired but I'm gonna begin the next chapter in a few moments XD, Excited and all that jazz, comment, lemme know what ya think!